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Connecting from a Mac to a Windows PC is no longer a niche trick; it’s a day‑to‑day workflow for developers, accountants, and hybrid workers who want the best of both worlds. With the Microsoft Remote Desktop client (and the newer Windows App consolidation on macOS), a properly configured Windows machine can be controlled from a Mac with full keyboard, display, audio, and clipboard redirection — but only after you’ve handled the platform caveats, network access, security hardening, and...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor reporting shows Windows 10 is still installed on roughly 53% of monitored devices, with only about 33% on Windows 11 and a non‑trivial share — roughly 8–9% in some datasets — still running Windows 7, an...

Neo4j’s new Infinigraph architecture — anchored by a technique the company calls property sharding — promises to finally address Neo4j’s long‑running scalability complaints by decoupling a graph’s topology from its property payloads, enabling horizontal scale beyond 100 TB while claiming ACID transactional guarantees and the ability to run transactional and analytical (HTAP) workloads in a single system. Background / Overview Graph databases model relationships as first‑class citizens...

Microsoft’s refreshed Windows Backup now includes a built‑in, local PC‑to‑PC migration path that can move your files and many personalization settings across the local network during Windows 11 setup — making the leap to a new machine faster and less dependent on external services or paid migration tools. Background Microsoft has long offered a mix of options for moving data between PCs: OneDrive folder sync for cloud‑first users, external drive copies and File History for offline control...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on September 6, 2025, forcing large volumes of traffic onto longer, congested routes and exposing brittle points in the global internet backbone. Background The modern internet is a physical network built on submarine fiber‑optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental data. A handful of maritime corridors concentrate east–west...

Microsoft's cloud-scale DDoS service is no longer an optional add-on for large enterprises — it's a foundational element of modern application resilience, and the recent RedmondMag Q&A with Azure MVP Aidan Finn underscores why. The conversation distills how Azure DDoS Protection uses per‑address machine learning, global traffic absorption, and tight monitoring to detect and mitigate volumetric and protocol-layer floods in real time, while offering straightforward enablement for teams that...

Microsoft has fixed a last‑minute gap in the plan to keep Windows 10 secure: if you want to keep using Windows 10 beyond the official end‑of‑support date, there is now a one‑year emergency option — but it comes with strict conditions, limited scope, and a clear clock that cannot be ignored. Background: the deadline and what it means After more than a decade as Microsoft’s primary desktop operating system, Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. On that date Microsoft will stop...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise comes a concrete price tag, regional variations, and new procurement and governance questions every IT leader must answer. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot debuted as the vendor’s flagship productivity...

When a headline promises a human-centred revolution — "Reimagining the Human Element: How Sarala Nishank Pathi Is Revolutionizing HR with AI and Cloud Intelligence" — readers expect a clear trail of evidence: projects, customers, timelines, technical details and measurable outcomes. The original International Business Times link for that story now returns a page-not-found error, and independent searches turn up no verifiable public profile for a “Sarala Nishank Pathi” linking that name to an...

Microsoft's decade-long desktop workhorse is entering its final weeks of mainstream servicing as Microsoft winds down Windows 10 and prepares to stop issuing routine updates and quality-of-life fixes ahead of the platform's end-of-support deadline on October 14, 2025. This transition is not a sudden outage — systems will continue to boot and run — but it redraws the security, compliance, and upgrade calculus for millions of PCs worldwide. In the last weeks before the cutoff Microsoft has...

Microsoft’s latest push makes the long-promised “passwordless” future real for Windows 11 users by turning passkeys and Windows Hello into the default, secure way to sign into apps, websites, and corporate devices — removing passwords from the sign-in flow while preserving recoverability and enterprise controls. Background Passwords have been the dominant authentication mechanism since the early days of consumer computing, but they suffer from endemic weaknesses: reuse, phishing, credential...

When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in practice. The NYU Stern–Microsoft classroom experiment that put Microsoft 365 Copilot agents into six student startup teams revealed a striking lesson: treating AI not as an add-on productivity tool but...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in true subjective experience. Background Mustafa Suleyman’s career arc—from co‑founder of DeepMind to the founder of Inflection AI and now a senior leader at Microsoft’s consumer AI division—gives his...

OpenAI and Nvidia are preparing a major push into physical infrastructure in two of the world’s most important AI markets — the United Kingdom and India — in moves that crystallize a new phase of the AI arms race where chips, power and real estate matter as much as algorithms. Early reports say the two firms will join London-based Nscale Global Holdings to pledge billions of dollars for UK data centre projects when U.S. tech leaders visit the capital, and separately OpenAI is pursuing a...

Microsoft's public posture toward Windows Mobile has quietly shifted from product-led ambition to maintenance-mode realism: the company will keep the platform alive for security patches, enterprise deployments and compatibility with Windows 10's broader ecosystem, but it will no longer prioritize new consumer-facing features or heavy investment in dedicated mobile hardware. Background Microsoft's mobile experiment spans more than a decade: from Windows Mobile and Windows Phone through the...

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Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform” thesis that treats Copilot as the primary conduit for agent‑based automation and knowledge‑work orchestration. Background / Overview At the session, Jared Spataro — Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer...

Microsoft’s latest push asks partners to take a decisive step beyond selling cloud capacity: modernise entire technology stacks, unify messy data estates, and build AI-native applications on Azure — and it is backing that ask with a tightly connected set of program changes, incentives, skilling and go-to-market assets designed to make that transition commercially attractive and operationally practical for partners and customers alike. Background / Overview Over the last two years Microsoft...

Microsoft and community reports confirm that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, version 24H2 (KB5063878, OS build 26100.4946) experienced delivery failures when distributed through on‑premises update infrastructure—principally Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and SCCM/MECM—causing clients to error out with 0x80240069 and related symptoms; Microsoft published a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) and re‑released the package for WSUS to remediate the issue, and administrators...

AuditDashboard’s Version 8.0 arrives as a major platform milestone, delivering deeper Microsoft 365 integrations — including in‑browser Office previews and direct access to Microsoft Copilot — alongside a rebuilt architecture and expanded API surface that together aim to make PBC workflows faster, more collaborative, and AI‑ready for modern accounting firms. Background AuditDashboard has been a focused player in client collaboration and PBC (prepared‑by‑client) request management for...